Photoshop Tutorial

What we are going to do is take this photo with the flowers and single out the yellow flower in the middle and turn everything else into grey scale to single out the yellow flower.  If your going to do this tutorial you dont have to use this photo you this procedure will work for any image.

Step 1: Open the photo you want to edit  in Photoshop

Step 2: Go over to the layers window on the right hand side of the screen and right click on the only layer you should have which will be defaulted to the background layer. Once you right click select layer from background

You will then have the option to name the layer and hit ok. This will unlock the layer and allow you to edit the image.

Step 3:  Select quick mask mode by selecting the last button down in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen.

Step 4: Select the Brush tool by either pressing the letter B or by selecting the tool from the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen.

Step 5:  The easiest way to single out the one flower is to color it with the brush tool while in quick mask mode. Insted of doing everything but the flower.

Once flower is covered in red you want to go and get the red as close to the edge of the flower as you can and it helps if you have a little bit of feather on the edge aswell which will help blend the yellow flower into the grey sruuounding it once we are done. To delete some of the red that you have put on the flower all you need to do is switch the colors just above the quick mask tool. Switch it from black to white by clicking the arrows above it and you are now erasing or by pressing X.

Step 6: Once you have everything masked off you can exit the quick mask tool to reveal your selection.

Step 7: Create  new layer, and then copy the selection of the yellow flower and paste it in the new layer.

Step 8: select the background layer adjust the saturation of the background image by selecting the adjustments menu on the right hand side of the window. Turn the saturation all the way down to that everything but the flower that you masked off turned grey.

Once the editing is complete your image should look like this!